CBR announced yesterday that Variety reported that Bob Kane, the (co) creator of someone named “Batman” (I hope I’m pronouncing that correctly,) would be reviving a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in 2015, just proving that the star is just another worthless “honor” handed out to whomever can afford it, regardless of any actual cultural impact:

According to Variety, Batman co-creator Bob Kane is among the 30 honorees selected to receive a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015. Kane, who died in 1998 and is credited by DC Comics and Warner Bros. as the sole creator of Batman, will receive one of two posthumous stars on the Walk of Fame -- the other will go to screenwriter and novelist Raymond Chandler.

Mr. Kane, will posthumously have his name etched into a piece of concrete on or near Hollywood Blvd, an honor normally reserved for illustrious people such as Paula Abdul, Nicolas Cage, and Ilka Chase. Kane, along with some yahoo named Raymond Chandler, receiving a star on the Hollywood walk of fame is not the first step in the decline of this formally illustrious honor, that honor goes to Vin Diesel, but they do represent all that is wrong in Hollywood. We can only hope that someday this “Batman” character becomes a big enough cultural reference to retroactively justify this action.

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